A few months ago we managed to obtain the stardot organisation name for use on GitHub: https://github.com/stardot. This can be considered the "official" repository for projects and development tools that are critical to and shared by the Acorn community. Once something evolves beyond a personal project it would seem safer and more sustainable to move things into a shared organisational structure that has multiple owners (we already have had examples of personal accounts disappearing from GitHub.)

If anyone would like to become a member please just request access in the usual manner on GitHub. We already have a number of Stardot regular set up as owners on the organisation, including myself, RichTW, Hoglet, TomS etc.

sweh wrote:For those of us who don't use github orgs, what is the "usual manner". Googling just shows how an owner can invite people; I couldn't find a "request" method...

This was my bad, I just confirmed with GitHub technical support that users cannot request to join an organisation, they do have to be invited by an owner. I propose that we ask the admins to create a sticky thread on this board for forum members to request access.

Once a user is a member of an organisation, they can request to join teams, which is the access control model for different repositories. This way we can have a simple process for a various maintainers and contributors to different projects, e.g. BeebAsm, BeebEm etc.